OK, I read the stupid Guardian article. When did the US express support for “regime change” in Venezuela? Never, that’s when. This writer just extrapolates himself into a wild exaggeration in the course of a single paragraph:

An anonymous State Department spokesman was even clearer last week, when he responded to the protests by expressing concern about the government’s “weakening of democratic institutions in Venezuela”, and said that there was an obligation for “government institutions [to] respond effectively to the legitimate economic and social needs of its citizens”. He was joining the opposition’s efforts to de-legitimize the government, a vital part of any “regime change” strategy.

Oh please.